This essay is about the upsides and downsides of capitalism and why it isn't the utopian government that many people believe it to be.

Capitalism is defined as a system based on private control of capital. A purely capitalist government has a free market and allows people to make money any way they see fit, unless it infringes on the rights of another citizen. The problem with capitalism is that it gives people too much freedom. Capitalism uses profit for motivation, profit brings out the worst in people, it makes people greedy. The combination of greed and freedom is …

…and society should stop looking for that 'utopian society' just yet because Capitalism is not it. Capitalism does way too many harmful things in the pursuit of profit for it to be called perfect. Perhaps a balance of Communism and Capitalism is what society needs or the elimination of anything of monetary value but the truth is no one knows for sure and only philosophers can do the best job of hypothesizing a 'utopian' government.